Word: tend
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Kennedy Administration is very much pleased with the economic vigor which even France and Italy have gained from the Common Market structure. The Administration favors progressive tariff reduction and opposes compromises which would tend to dilute the EEC's strength. It even seems to agree with Hallstein's view that Britain must join the EEC unconditionally or not at all. But there is in Washington much misguided uneasiness of the former alternative...
...conservative princes tend to gather behind Budget-Balancer Feisal. Recently a dozen of them showed their feelings and snubbed the King by refusing to show up at the airport to greet him when he made a ceremonial visit to Jiddah. If the reforms come too swiftly-or if spending gets out of hand-Talal and Tariki could find themselves out and the Feisal crowd back in. The dilemma, according to one Saudi, is that "Feisal 'feels that reforms will topple the throne, while Talal feels that without them the throne will topple." But both are loyal to the King...
...situation, to be sure, is different. Providence is the chief city in Rhode Island and there are naturally many Brown graduates among her influential citizens and government officials; unfortunately, most Massachusetts Harvard graduates tend to live in Boston or the suburbs and have little interest in or control over Cambridge affairs. Equally important is the fact that Harvard is only one of many Greater Boston cultural attractions, while without Brown, Providence would be nearly devoid of many such opportunities...
Rankings create a distorted picture of the relative merit of students, according to Louis A. Toepfer, vice-Dean of the Law School. Students' grades tend ot cluster, Toepfer explained, and often have to be computed to the second decimal point in order to determine the correct ranking...
...Science students already carry a heavy load of difficult courses. Tutorial would only tend to crowd their schedule more and tempt them to give up non-science courses or essential science and math courses outside their field...